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Inayah

#1,860 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Inaya

Inayah has been given to 1,189 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #1,860 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 127 recorded.

Babies named Inayah, 2025

1 in 31,000

Inayah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inayah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Inaya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Inayah means

Inayah is a alternate transcription of Inaya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Inayah → Inaya. The family’s meaning is “care, concern”, recorded in the naming reference for Inaya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Inaya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,189 girls were recorded with the name Inayah between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 127 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,633 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,797 in 2020 to #1,860 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,439 in 2015 to #1,860 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Inayah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,000
107 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,860
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,477 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Inayah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,477 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Inayahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inayah was born before 2019 — so the typical Inayah is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,189
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Choose a decade

2020s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (555).

Is Inayah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−227
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+937
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,579
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.34×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.3%
Peak was 2024 (127)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,633
2024

Spellings of Inayah

Inayah is not the most common spelling — Aniyah is, with 24.4% against Inayah's 0.93%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Inayah is used

Across 2016–2025, Inayah was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 21,693 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 7,692
  2. 2Michigan1 in 14,286
  3. 3Texas1 in 16,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 20,000
  5. 5California1 in 25,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Inayah around the world

Where Inayah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #284
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2025
    #363
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #809
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Inayah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,860
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 937
Best rank ever
#1,633
2024
Peak year
2024
127 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,189
Count in 2025
107

Names similar to Inayah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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